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Music Streaming Giant Slaps Apple With Lawsuit Over Sudden App Store Removal
Musi claims Apple’s decision to remove its app was based on a vague complaint from YouTube without proper investigation.
LAPD Foundation Tries to Use Trademark Claim to Shutdown Critical Merch
The LAPD foundation’s threat to Cola over “Fuck the LAPD” highlights how rights claims can be used to crush criticism.
Justin Sun, BitTorrent Owner Hit With Piracy Lawsuit
An employment-related lawsuit turned into a piracy one.
Joe Biden Says Game Developers Are “Little Creeps”, Teach People How to Kill
Biden isn’t a fan video games that contain violence.
Aaron Carter Lashes Out at Artist Whose Work He Had “Commercially Exploited” to Promote His Merch
The unpleasant exchange went down on Twitter.
Court Orders Man to Stop Distributing Products That Avoid Nintendo’s Intellectual Property Protections
The well-documented case has come to a conclusion.
CBC Writer: Baby Yoda Memes Are Problematic and Disney Should Crack Down on Them
Hot take of the year.
Kodi Website Goes Down After Host Pulls Support
What the problem showcases, however, is the financial vulnerability even of some very successful and widely used free and open-source projects.
Web Host Linode’s Response to False DMCA Notice Censored Investigative Journalism
The DMCA is one of the biggest threats to free speech online.
EU Wrongly Says There’s No Creativity Without Intellectual Property
Apparently IP is the thing we humans have to thank for the intellectual richness of our world.
Bounding Into Comics Page With Over 250,000 Followers Banned by Facebook
Bounding Into Comics believes its page has been censored because it calls out anti-Republican and anti-Trump comments from high profile figures in the entertainment industry.
Joe Rogan Experience Requests to Be Removed From New Walled-Garden Podcasts App Luminary
The Joe Rogan podcast is snubbing the closed nature of the new VC-backed app.
